NY'S CASSANDRA
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PRESIDENT Bill Clinton's team ignored dire warnings that its approach to terrorism was "very dangerous" and could have "deadly results," according to a blistering memo just obtained by The Post. Then-Manhattan U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White wrote the memo as she pleaded...

Charles Bird: Deborah Orin: "Equally troubling is that the 9/11 Commission, charged with tracing the failure to stop 9/11, got...
MarkInMexico: Main Page Wall falls on 9/11 commission The 9/11 commission's credibility is getting buried under a ton of debris as "The Wall" falls on it.
Betsy Newmark: Deborah Orin revisits Mary Jo White's pleadings with Jamie Gorelick in the 1990s to tear down the wall that separated sharing intelligence on terrorists with prosecutors.

John Cole: More on the 'Wall' Deborah Orin has an additional column on Clinton-era policies and terrorism: PRESIDENT Bill...
Cori Dauber: Also today the New York Post (via Memeorandum) gets hold of memos written by the top terrorism prosecutor of the '90s,...
Captain Ed: The Second White Memo — Deborah Orin and the New York Post have the second memo from Mary Jo White to the Department of...

Bombs explode across Bangladesh
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More than 50 people have been injured in a series of simultaneous bomb blasts across Bangladesh. Police say about 100 explosions took place in some 50 cities and towns across the country including the capital Dhaka and Chittagong.

Jan Haugland: Bomb explosions all across Bangladesh — Today's bomb attacks in Bangladesh must be the largest coordinated terrorist...
Justin Gardner: Thankfully they seem to have rounded up a lot of these terrorists. The BBC has more.
FrancoAlemán: Then it's just natural that there's retribution from the resistance: [snipped quote] Click here to send me an email

Hugh Hewitt: The Los Angeles Weekly's Nikki Finke reports that the papers' cash cow herd that are movie ads and listing fees are...
Cookie Jill: hollywood to "the times" twins...."drop dead" it's going to be number crunching time at the la times and nytimes.

Kevin Roderick: The ad drain at the LAT figures to get worse if Nikki Finke is correct in reporting today on the LA Weekly website that...
Jim Romenesko: H'wood isn't interested in "older, elitist" newspaper readers — LA Weekly So the movie studios are pulling their ads, reports Nikki Finke.

Roberts' Ind. Hometown Draws Scrutiny
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LONG BEACH, Ind. - Like many towns across America, the exclusive lakefront community where Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. grew up during the racially turbulent 1960s and '70s once banned the sale of homes to nonwhites and Jews.

Patterico: (Oh — So Did John Roberts) The AP reports some blockbuster news: Like many towns across America, the exclusive...

Captain Ed: In their report on John Roberts' upbringing, Tom Coyne and Ashley Heher do everything except paint a white robe and...

Roberts Rated 'Well Qualified' by ABA
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court nominee John Roberts earned a "well qualified" rating from the American Bar Association on Wednesday, clearing one hurdle in his path to joining the high court.

Captain Ed: The AP notes that the man they want to paint as a bigot just got the highest rating from the American Bar Association on...

Orin Kerr: ABA Rates Roberts "Well Qualified": The American Bar Association has announced that they are giving John Roberts a unanimous rating of "Well Qualified," the ABA's highest rating.

Ace: At the risk of hearing "That's old".... [snipped quote] Sandy Berger's Pants Are Nicely Packed Update: The American Thinker wonders what's going on "down there."
Marc @USSNeverdock: America - Clinton Ignored Terror Warnings — Not only did Clinton ignore the threat of bin Laden, he also ignored the warnings over intelligence gathering and dissemination.

Democrats Feel Heat From Left On Roberts
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Major liberal groups accused Democratic senators yesterday of showing too little stomach for opposing John G. Roberts Jr.'s Supreme Court nomination, saying newly released documents indicate he is much more conservative than many people first thought.

Jason Spitalnick: On Wednesday, the headline read "Democrats Feel Heat From Left On Roberts."
John Cole: The Roberts Conundrum Looks like the base is pissed with reports there will be no vicious confirmation battle: Major...
Avedon Carol: Background noise — Murray Waas in The Village Voice on how the Treasongate investigation became real - Needlenose says,...

Erick @RedState: Liberal Lap Dogs in the Senate In, what I find to be a humorous piece, WaPo shows that the Democrats on the Judicial Committee are lap dogs of the left.
Patterico: After the Washington Post said yesterday that Democrats weren't that interested in fighting John Roberts, the interest groups blew a gasket.
Brendan Nyhan: Democrats appease activists on Roberts — After conceding that Roberts is going to get confirmed, Democrats were accused...

Lott Accuses Frist of 'Personal Betrayal'
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WASHINGTON - Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott blames his fall from power in 2002 on a "personal betrayal" by an ambitious Sen. Bill Frist (news, bio, voting record), his successor, adding in a new book that President Bush, Colin Powell and other GOP associates played roles.

James Joyner: Lott Accuses Frist of 'Personal Betrayal' — Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott has written a tell-all book criticizing several of his Republican colleagues in the Senate.

Taegan Goddard: Lott's Last Licks — The AP has more on Sen. Trent Lott's (R-MS) new book, Herding Cats.

The Exploits and Exploitation of Cindy Sheehan
By James Lileks / Newhouse News
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Might as well get it out of the way: This is a cruel, false, chicken-hearted attempt to smear Cindy Sheehan, the protesting mother who lost a son in Iraq. That's not the intent, but that's how some will respond. Some people think that any time you argue back, you're Stifling Dissent.

Betsy Newmark: Lileks is his usual perceptive self as he addresses the idea that people can't even criticize the things that Cindy...
Lorie Byrd: Lileks On Sheehan — No commentary necessary - just read this from James Lileks. (link via Lucianne)

Ed Driscoll: Lileks On Sheehan — In his syndicated Newhouse column, James Lileks writes: [snipped quote] If the left remembers her three years from now.

String of Car Bombings Kills at Least 43 in Iraqi Capital
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BAGHDAD, Iraq, Aug. 17 - At least 43 people were killed and 76 were wounded when a series of car bombs exploded at a crowded bus station in central Baghdad today, sending debris and body parts flying across the scene and horrified survivors fleeing on foot, police and hospital officials said.

John Cole: Perhaps I am just looking for positive news, with all the other bad news dominating headlines, but I don't necessarily...
Charles Bird: Our Enemies Know It's Crunch Time for an Iraqi Constitution — Last Saturday, the Washington Post relayed a message from...

Armando @DailyKos: Today: "At least 43 people were killed and 76 were wounded when a series of car bombs exploded at a crowded bus station...
Cookie Jill: this is what "last throes" looks like? iraq. "...it will be an enormous success story" - dick cheney.

Rob @Wizbang: UN Paying For Palestinian Propaganda — Good grief.
Scott @PowerLine: Quiet: UN at work — The New York Sun's Jacob Gershman has an excellent story on the one job the United Nations can be...
Ace: UN Funds Palestinian Incitement-Propaganda — As usual: I did not see this one coming: [snipped quote] The UN Let's be...

Jan Haugland: UN bankrolled anti-Israel propaganda — When it isn't oil-for-food, it is something else, but of course it doesn't...
TheAnchoress: The UN did what? United Nations Bankrolled Latest Anti-israel Propaganda.
Pejman Yousefzadeh: Because if it is, I will find myself once again in the uncomfortable position of being at a complete loss for words

State Dept. Says It Warned About bin Laden in 1996
By Eric Lichtblau / NYT
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 - State Department analysts warned the Clinton administration in July 1996 that Osama bin Laden's move to Afghanistan would give him an even more dangerous haven as he sought to expand radical Islam "well beyond the Middle East," but the government chose not to deter the move, newly declassified documents show.

Avedon Carol: Bush: The Good, The Bad, And The Biking In case you have trouble with that "Wag the Dog" link that Atrios messed up, here's a good one for The Story the Times Forgot.
Patrick Ruffini: UPDATE: State Dept. Says It Warned About bin Laden in 1996.
Michael @AmericaBlog: Warned Clinton About Bin Laden In 1996 The second story in as many weeks suggesting it's all Clinton's fault for not killing Bin Laden.

Gateway Pundit: And, to top of the weekly news we hear that the Clinton White House was warned by the State Department...
Cori Dauber: Not one day after an interview with New York magazine comes out in which he makes yet another pass at positioning...
TheAnchoress: 1) State Dept. Says It Warned About bin Laden in 1996, somehow links in my mind to this statement by Bill Clinton in this article.

Why the 'Chickenhawk' argument is un-American: Part I
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Who is qualified to speak on matters of national security? According to the American left, only pacifists, military members who have served in combat and direct relatives of those slain in combat or in acts of terrorism. The rest of us — about 80 percent of voters — must simply sit by silently.

Jo Fish: Virgin Ben, The Chickenhawk Series — Over at Clownhall today, the Virgin Ben has an essay up telling us all why we...
Sadly, No!: Shapiro vs. Shapiro — In one corner, the indefatigable Ben Shapiro: "I'm Ben Shapiro."

'Shoot-to-kill' suspension call
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The family of a man shot dead by police who mistakenly suspected him of being a suicide bomber are calling for the "shoot-to-kill" policy to be suspended. It comes after leaked documents contradicted previous accounts of the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes at Stockwell Tube station on 22 July.

Justin Gardner: And by the way, Jean Charles de Menezes' family has called for an inquiry into the shooting.
Atrios: Noggin — Well, I'm sure glad John Gibson wants to live in a world where if he walks into a subway station, slides his...

John Cole: I then pushed him back on to the seat where he had been previously sitting … I then heard a gun shot very close to...

Joe Gandelman: Indeed, note this Reuters report: "Bangladesh, which has been hit by a number of unexplained bombings over the past two...

Donald Sensing: Reuters reports one dead and 100 injured, though it's safe to assume both numbers will rise as recovery continues.

'I'd leave here broke'
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Chutzpah is a Yiddish word meaning brazen arrogance. The cliché example is a man who murders his parents and then begs a judge for mercy because he is an orphan. The city of New London, Conn., deserves a chutzpah award.

John Cole: I want to see more, and I want to see this verified, and then, if true, stopped. (h/t Captain Ed) More here: The...
Dafydd: UPDATE 16:35 17 August 2005: USA Today now carries an editorial supporting the O'Connell story; but it clearly uses...
Patterico: UPDATE: For those of you who don't trust a story unless you see it in a big paper, the same facts are reported here in USA Today.

Jeff Goldstein: But for my money, the state claiming they can take ownership of your home because you haven't yet gotten around to,...
Dr. Steven Taylor: Outrageous — Via USAT: 'I'd leave here broke' "The city of New London, Conn., deserves a chutzpah award.
Montag: Kelo Madness — Holy Moly. I'm speechless after reading this article and this editorial. Found via Balloon Juice.

TABLE FOR 'JEW'
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Two diners on a date at a fancy Jersey Shore restaurant were furious when they saw the check — which listed their table as that of the "Jew Couple." Brooklynite Elliot Stein says he was shocked that a waitress at the Parkhill's Waterfront Grill in Allenhurst printed the slur...

TheAnchoress: Then check out this story about the fellow who went to supper and had JEW COUPLE show up on his receipt and his credit card bill.
Joe Gandelman: A Little Note On Their Check — Well, it could have been worse: at least she didn't stick them in the oven.

Jeff Jarvis: Your customer service could be worse. At least you aren't calling your customers "bitch dog" or "jew couple."
JPod: WORST RESTAURANT SERVICE STORY OF THE DAY — I wonder what the receipt says if you're black.

Oliver Willis: What NARAL Should Have Done Before — NARAL has decided not to endorse anyone in the Virginia Governor's race, because...
Gerry Daly: The Washington Post reports: "The Virginia chapter of NARAL Pro-Choice America said Tuesday that it will not endorse...

Tim Graham: The Post is honest enough to report that its source on all this is "Ann O'Hanlon, executive director of the abortion rights group and a former Washington Post reporter."

Iraqi Crossroads
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That free Iraqis are taking another week to write their new constitution is no great cause for alarm. There were a few glitches 200 years ago in Philadelphia too. The reason to worry is that the talks are stymied on the issue of federalism, which is crucial if Iraq's ethnic factions are going to coexist in a single country for the long run.

John Hawkins: Have a glass of shut-the-hell-up already Pat Buchanan, Andrew Sullivan, and you other third rate, right-wing rejects...

Glenn Reynolds: THE IRAQI OIL TRUST IDEA actually seems to be getting more support now, from a surprising source.

At Least 43 Killed in Baghdad Bombings
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BAGHDAD, Aug. 17 — Three back-to-back bombings hit near a Baghdad bus station Wednesday and then at the hospital where rescuers rushed the victims, killing at least 43 people and wounding nearly 90, authorities said.

Cori Dauber: Today in Baghdad, if it isn't enough the suicide bombers are aiming at civilian targets, the third bomb in the sequence...

Pierce Brosnan Out As James Bond, 007
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NEW YORK - A single, surprising phone call and it was over. That's how Pierce Brosnan says he learned that his services as James Bond would no longer be required. "One phone call, that's all it took!" the 52-year-old actor tells Entertainment Weekly magazine in its Aug. 19 issue.

Joe Gandelman: RIP — but he's not in mourning as the day has finally come: [snipped quote] Indeed, type casting is a problem for actors (and, actually members of families as WELL).

E Pluribus Unum?
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The Senate is poised to sanction the creation of a racially exclusive government by and for Native Hawaiians who satisfy a blood test. The new race-based sovereign that would be summoned into being by the so-called Akaka Bill would operate outside the U.S. Constitution and the nation's most cherished civil rights statutes.

Randall Parker: Former US Senators Slade Gorton of Washington and Hank Brown of Colorado say a racially exclusive government for native Hawaiians would violate the US Constitution.

Gail Heriot: Slate Gorton and Hank Brown on the Akaka Bill — Former Senators Slate Gorton and Hank Brown weigh in against the Akaka...

White House Insider
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Washington Post staff writer Jim VandeHei will be online Wednesday, August 17, at 1 p.m. ET to take your questions on all the latest happenings in the Bush White House. Wichita, Kan. : There was a recent Time magazine piece that seemed to humanize President Bush.

Blackfive: Trade Center Towers' Steel Forged Into The USS NEW YORK — Many people have sent this story from the Stars&Stripes.
Michelle Malkin: U.S. STEEL — A very moving story in Stars & Stripes today: Twin Towers steel used in construction of USS New York.

Kathryn Jean Lopez: The Navy is on a similar wave length: "ARLINGTON, Va. — From rubble to avenging angel: The U.S. Navy is using steel...

Helping Al Franken find a swindler
By Michelle Malkin / Townhall.com
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The Bronx-based Gloria Wise Boys & Girls Club has been duped out of a reported $875,000 meant for poor children and elderly Alzheimer's patients. Evan Montvel-Cohen, the former chairman of the much-hyped liberal radio network Air America, is at the center of the erupting scandal.

Avedon Carol: Right-wingers are still blaming Al Franken, an entertainer, for business decisions made in the early days of Air America...
MarkInMexico: Main Page Help find Evan Montvel-Cohen Michelle Malkin has volunteered to help Al Franken and Air America Network find the network's founder and former chairman.
Brian Maloney: Or, as Michelle Malkin puts it in today's syndicated column, why not try to find "the real killer", as OJ Simpson occasionally pretends to do?

Scott @PowerLine: Michelle devotes her column today to the story: "Helping Al Franken find a swindler."
John Hawkins: Israeli Army Urges Evacuation As Hour Nears For Use Of Force (Free WAPO Reg Req)" "Evidence Found Powerful Bombs Being...
TheAnchoress: Malkin offers aid to Franken Michelle Malkin has heard that Al Franken finds the story of Air America's misuse of public funds to be "boring."

Ex-FBI Whistleblower to Join 'Peace Mom'
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OAKDALE, Minn. (AP) — Former FBI whistleblower Coleen Rowley, along with a state senator whose son died in Iraq, are headed to Texas this week to join a growing anti-war demonstration near President Bush's ranch.

Captain Ed: Two Minnesota Politicians Flock To Sheehan's Side — Two Minnesota politicians have announced that they will travel to...
James Joyner: Ex-FBI Whistleblower to Join 'Peace Mom' (AP) [snipped quote] Surely, Jesse Jackson can not be far behind.

Jayson @PoliPundit: Voyage to Political Oblivion down in Texas.
Kathryn Jean Lopez: SYNERGY! All the Left's favorite media darlings must be in Crawford. Next up? "FBI Whistleblower" Colleen Rawley.

Library Missing Roberts File
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A file folder containing papers from Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr.'s work on affirmative action more than 20 years ago disappeared from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library after its review by two lawyers from the White House and the Justice...

Nico @ThinkProgress: As the Washington Post stated today, "No duplicates of the folder's contents were made before the lawyers' review."
Tarek @LiquidList: Politics: The Memo in Which John Roberts Unleashes an Unholy Torrent of Vicious Epithets and Other Vile Things — I'm...
Judd @ThinkProgress: If There's Nothing To Hide, Start Naming Names — An important detail in today's Washington Post about Roberts's missing...

La Shawn Barber: According to the Washington Post (still dunces), a file containing information about John Roberts's (Supreme Court...
Susie Madrak: How Convenient! Gee. Remember how the wingnuts squealed about Sandy Bergen? Of course, he's a Democrat: WASHINGTON, D.C.
John @AmericaBlog: Did White House steal Roberts records from Reagan library? How could anyone suggest such a thing?

10 questions for Andrea Mitchell
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What Is This? Armed guards dragged NBC's chief foreign correspondent from a photo-op last month after she asked the President of Sudan a tough question. Typical.

Brian Stelter: To promote "Talking Back...To Presidents, Dictators and Assorted Scoundrels," she answers ten questions in this week's Time Magazine.

The 'serving size' myth
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On countless food packages, serving sizes have become a confusing joke. I bought a frozen "personal pizza." That's what it said on the package, in big letters. From the name (and its size-it's not very big), you would think a "personal pizza" is for one person — say, you.

Tbogg: Someone, and we're not sure who, actually pays John Stoessel for stuff like this: On countless food packages, serving sizes have become a confusing joke.

Tom @ScaredMonkeys: I sure has heck can not. [snipped quote] Read the rest. There are so many lies out there that we run into every day.

"The president always knows"
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Last week, Associated Press reporter Pete Yost wrote a relatively aggressive article about potential conversations between Karl Rove and President George W. Bush about Valerie Plame Wilson. But Yost's piece considers only the possibility that Rove lied about his involvement in the leak to Bush after the fact.

Skippy: father knows nothing judd legum and faiz shakir discuss in salon.com why it's a mistake for the press to simply not ask...

Susie Madrak: From Salon: So how did the current President Bush react when he learned that Joe Wilson—once a member of his father's...

Susie Madrak: Journalism 101 Great piece in Editor & Publisher in which a j-school prof wonders: "Should I tell students what they're up against?"

Jim Romenesko: Prof: Should I tell students the truth about the news biz?

The Interpreter
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Fareed Zakaria's career reads like some crazy America fantasy: Neoconservative policy wonk becomes darling of the ultra-liberal Daily Show. Political columnist and editor of Newsweek International is dubbed an "intellectual heartthrob" by Jon Stewart.

Kathryn Jean Lopez: STOP ME BEFORE I MAKE AN ANALOGY LIKE THIS ONE — Fareed Zakaria as Backstreet Boy?

Mother knows best
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TEL AVIV People don't ordinarily think of Ariel Sharon as a mama's boy. But he was. And he had some mother, too. Even among the flinty Zionist farmers of the 1920s, she stood out as a hard case, a woman of epic quarrels who carried a grudge and slept with an ax under her bed.

Judith Weiss: Also from Norm, a peek behind the scenes at Sharon's negotiations with Bush. Out of Step Jew was the last miluimnik.

Norm Geras: Here's a piece by Zev Chafets on Ariel Sharon's thinking and his deal with George Bush: "... Bush realized that there were political limits on what Sharon could do.

Don't sell Harris short in '06
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Last week, GOP Rep. Katherine Harris of Florida kicked off her campaign to unseat Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson. While this should be a much-ballyhooed quest in Republican circles, too few GOP insiders seem to be excited by Harris's launch. This is a mistake.

John Cole: Katherine Harris in '06 According to the Hill, Katherine Harris is going to win: Last week, GOP Rep. Katherine...

Officer Says Military Blocked Sharing of Files on Terrorists
By Philip Shenon / NYT
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 - A military intelligence team repeatedly contacted the F.B.I. in 2000 to warn about the existence of an American-based terrorist cell that included the ringleader of the Sept. 11 attacks, according to a veteran Army intelligence officer who said he had now decided to risk his career by discussing the information publicly.

Stephen Green: Too Late — Able Danger really did have the goods: [snipped quote] Read the whole thing.

New claims emerge over Menezes death
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The young Brazilian shot dead by police on a London tube train in mistake for a suicide bomber had already been overpowered by a surveillance officer before he was killed, according to secret documents revealed last night.

Justin Gardner: Now, more details are coming out, and they make the police officers on duty look very bad.
Susie Madrak: From the Guardian: It has now emerged that Mr de Menezes: was never properly identified because a police officer was...
Julian Sanchez: Now, commenter Phil points to this story, which if accurate is pretty damning: "But the revelation that will prove most...

John Cole: This is pretty shocking: The young Brazilian shot dead by police on a London tube train in mistake for a suicide...
Avedon Carol: From the coalition of the willing - where life is cheap — It just gets worse: [snipped quote] But we already knew they...
Kevin Drum: From the Guardian: [snipped quote] This is going to be "uncomfortable" for Scotland Yard?

The Omission Commission
By Edward Morrissey / Weekly Standard
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REPRESENTATIVE CURT WELDON dropped a delayed political bombshell with a special-orders speech last June in which he revealed the existence of a data-mining program at the Pentagon named Able Danger, which he claimed had identified Mohammed Atta and three of the other 9/11 hijackers as al Qaeda operatives over a year before the attacks.

TheAnchoress: Updated and bumped to top: Awright, awright…there's just too much going on here, and it somehow all feels...
Captain Ed: Germans Uncovered Iraqi Spy Ring During 9/11 Planning (Updates & Bump) The Daily Standard has just published my latest...

John @PowerLine: The German Connection — Ed Morrissey has a fascinating article in the Weekly Standard on the arrest of two Iraqi intelligence agents in Germany in February 2001.
Ace: Again: Iraqi Spies In Germany Arrested On Suspicion Of Planning Attacks On US In Concert With "Fundamentalist...

Helping Al Franken find a swindler
By Michelle Malkin / Jewish World Review
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The Bronx-based Gloria Wise Boys & Girls Club has been duped out of a reported $875,000 meant for poor children and elderly Alzheimer's patients. Evan Montvel-Cohen, the former chairman of the much-hyped liberal radio network Air America, is at the center of the erupting scandal.

Michelle Malkin: AIR ENRON: AL FRANKEN NEEDS HELP — DarleenClickAAR1.jpg The subject of my latest column: Where in the world is Evan Montvel-Cohen?

Captain Ed: Air America: Show Al The Money — Michelle Malkin wants to help Al Franken in her new column this week.

Cindy Sheehan is her own worst enemy
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Cindy Sheehan, whose soldier son was killed in Iraq last year, seems distressed that her anti-Bush protest has become a bit, well, political. "We need to refocus our mission," Sheehan said Monday at Camp Casey, the ragtag staging ground she set up nearly two weeks ago near the president's ranch outside Crawford, Texas.

Captain Ed: UPDATE: Rowley should address her support of statements like this as well: [quote] "Cindy, I was reading some of the essays...[end quote]
Ace: In fact, she tends to say the the same sort of things, including the same sort of things about Israel: [snipped quote] Thanks to Irwin.

Omitting Air America
By Brent Bozell / Townhall.com
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Which side of the talk radio wars do you suppose our "mainstream" media outlets favor? If you have to ask, then just look at the news coverage of talk radio scandals. When Rush Limbaugh acknowledged an addiction to painkillers in 2003, the news media couldn't get enough of his misfortune.

Michelle Malkin: Brent Bozell has questions for the MSM. Stay tuned to The Radio Equalizer and this space. We will be bringing you much more.

Brian Maloney: Brent Bozell has some new questions for the media today as well, wondering why Bill O'Reilly was such a target last...

Ohioans Urge U.S. Escalation Or Pullout
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CLEVELAND, Aug. 16 — The day after burying their son, parents of a fallen Marine urged President Bush to either send more reinforcements to Iraq or withdraw U.S. troops altogether. "We feel you either have to fight this war right or get out," said Rosemary Palmer, mother of Lance Cpl. Edward Schroeder II.

Arthur Chrenkoff: Update: When parents of a Marine from Ohio killed in Iraq call in question President Bush's strategy in Iraq, advocating...

Cori Dauber: Is that somehow the rationale for only giving press coverage to grieving military families who vocally oppose the war in Iraq?

Edwards Says Poverty a Key Democrat Issue
By Curt Woodward / AP
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SEATTLE - Democrats can build the party's national strength by pushing their policies in statehouses around the country, 2004 vice presidential candidate John Edwards told a group of legislators Tuesday.

"We know what we believe. We know what we stand for.

McQ: Edwards thumps Poverty drum — John Edwards, down but not out, wants to go back to Democratic roots to rebuild the party.
David Sirota: AP Reports on PLAN Kickoff — Exhausted after a long day. Read the Associated Press story for some coverage. More tomorrow.

K Street grows and grows
By Jim Snyder / The Hill
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The distraction of a presidential campaign behind them and a host of far-reaching legislative initiatives in front, lobbyists appear on pace to set a new record for revenues this year, although some firms reported slight declines at midyear.

Sam Rosenfeld: Finally, Republicans in Congress have long stood for taking on the special interests, excepting all those instances that...

Justin @SouthernAppeal: And now an article about the men and women who really control the country: [snipped quote] Me: Interesting, to say the least.

Officer Says Pentagon Barred Sharing Pre-9/11 Qaeda Data With F.B.I.
By Philip Shenon / NYT
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 - A military intelligence team repeatedly contacted the F.B.I. in 2000 to warn about the existence of an American-based terrorist cell that included the ringleader of the Sept. 11 attacks, according to a veteran Army intelligence officer who said he had now decided to risk his career by discussing the information publicly.

Bird Dog: Weldon Could Be Right — Now it's been confirmed by the New York Times, and one of the unnamed sources is now named: "A...
Tom Maguire: Able Danger Source Steps Forward — The NY Times interviews Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, who has been a key source on the...
TheAnchoress: 2) All of THAT somehow brings me to thinking about all of this Able Danger stuff which, speaking of absolutes, we still can't get a full and clear, absolute read on.

Charles Bird: Able Danger in the New York Times by Charles Now it's been confirmed by the New York Times, and one of the unnamed...
Gateway Pundit: So how far will the MSM go in delving into the story? The New York Times wrote a piece this morning on "Able Danger".
John Hawkins: Many Democrats See Battle as Futile (Free WAPO Reg Req)" "Officer Says Pentagon Barred Sharing Pre-9/11 Qaeda Data With F.B.I.

Worm strikes down Windows 2000 systems
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WASHINGTON (CNN) — A fast-moving computer worm Tuesday shut down computer systems using Microsoft operating software, causing computer systems to crash across the United States and reportedly in Germany and Asia.

Brian Stelter: After all, as CNN.com notes, Microsoft called it "low impact." (And "at any given time there are thousands of computer worms and viruses in existence.")
Glenn Reynolds: ALONG THE LINES OF THIS POST, I plan, as soon as Angelina Jolie becomes pregnant, to immediately deny responsibility.
James Joyner: Worm strikes down Windows 2000 systems (CNN) [snipped quote] As usual, the legacy media are way behind.

John Cole: Worm Looks like a particularly nasty worm is attacking the InterTrons: A fast-moving computer worm Tuesday attacked...
Tom @ScaredMonkeys: There is a worm out there that is infecting these computers causing them to shut down and reboot constantly.
Roger L. Simon: Pajamas Media NOT involved... FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Founders Charles Johnson and Roger L. Simon have denied any...

Sheehan plays 'Hardball' with Matthews
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With Cindy Sheehan's protest outside of President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, in its ninth day on Monday, Hardball's Chris Matthews talked with the California mother who lost a son in Iraq and is demanding to meet with President Bush.

MarkInMexico: Main Page Sebastian Holsclaw tells it righteously Sebastian Holsclaw at Obsidian Wings says to let this do the talking for Cindy Sheehan.
Sebastian Holsclaw: You can look at what she says—it discredits her without anything else needed: [snipped quote] Well, that is rather easy to answer.
Rich Lowry: SHEEHAN: AFGHAN WAR WRONG TOO — This is from Hardball the other night: "MATTHEWS: All right.

Avedon Carol: Transcript of Cindy Sheehan vs. Chris Matthews on Hardball. And Who is this woman?
Michelle Malkin: This is from Mrs. Sheehan's appearance on Hardball (yeah, I know) last night. I will let it speak for itself.

Roberts scoffed at equal-pay theory
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As an assistant White House counsel in 1984, John Roberts scoffed at the notion that men and women should earn equal pay in jobs of comparable importance, and he belittled three female Republican members of Congress who promoted that idea to the Reagan administration.

Tbogg: From a recently released John Roberts memo from 1984: Roberts said the women's letter "contends that more is required...
Kos @DailyKos: Heck, even NARAL's ad was proven wrong with yesterday's document dump: "One of Monday's documents might undercut the...
Amanda Marcotte: Our genial candidate all but called them Communists for daring to even suggest that women's work should be valued like men's.

MarkInMexico: Main Page MSM lashes out at Roberts The liberal lefty MSM has done it again. Not satisfied with one hatchet job, it is repeated here.
Jo Fish: Now we come to find out that ol'French Fry thinks women are worth 60% of a man. Huh?
Justin Gardner: Recently a memo was discovered that exposed Roberts' views about unequal wages between the sexes. That's right.

Betsy Newmark: Newsday has an article about the books that Bush is reading on his summer vacation.
Ken Masugi: Bush's Books — President Bush's reading during his five-week vacation includes: Mark Kurlansky, Salt: A World History;...
Clayton Cramer: The article interviewed the author of one of the books, and the arrogance of the Bush-haters just leaps out at you

TheAnchoress: Hee-hee…I don't know why but so many stories are striking my funny bone today. This one cracked me up.
Glenn Reynolds: But if you really want to worry, then you should note what InstaPundit reader Joseph Beaulieu did — a report that one...
Kathryn Jean Lopez: ' " You'd have to be suffering from Bush Derangement Syndrome to react like Mark Kurlansky did upon learning the...

Greg @BeggingToDiffer: ROBERTS IN 1984: EQUAL PAY SOCIALISM "RADICAL" — This Newsday article introduces itself with the following provocative...
MarkInMexico: Not satisfied with one hatchet job, it is repeated here. First, USA Today says that Judge "Roberts scoffed at equal-pay theory".
Steve M.: ... —Newsday This detail is also buried in the middle of a Washington Post story on the latest Roberts document dump.

Patrick Ruffini: The Big He Fails Up — It's hard to read this drooling, saccharine, 10 jump page look-from-within at Bill Clinton's...
Cori Dauber: Rewriting History — I saw this item on Memorandum, so I went to the New York magazine interview with Bill Clinton and...
Captain Ed: Bill Clinton Rewrites History On Al-Qaeda — Bill Clinton tells New York magazine that he desperately wishes that the...

TheAnchoress: Says It Warned About bin Laden in 1996, somehow links in my mind to this statement by Bill Clinton in this article.
Jon Henke: But when Clinton says this... "I desperately wish, that I had been president when the FBI and CIA finally confirmed,...
Joe Gandelman: UPDATE: You can read the whole original New York Magazine article by CLICKING HERE. Note the stunning photos on top of Clinton.

Crosses vandalized at antiwar mom's Texas camp site
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CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - Anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan tried to calm tensions on Tuesday with area residents upset by her vigil but expressed outrage after a pickup truck driver ran over crosses at her campsite near U.S. President George W. Bush's ranch.

Skippy: reuters tells us mr. northern was arrested and charged with criminal mischief.
Michelle Malkin: Some nutball drove his truck through an anti-war display of crosses down at Camp Cindy Sheehan.

V @LeftInTheWest: Ironic, Isn't It — Sheehan says, [snipped quote] I think that she understates the point.
TheAnchoress: This is a very stupid and adolescent thing to do. It is ALWAYS a stupid and adolescent thing to do.

Gaza: Tomorrow's Iraq
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It is the solemn obligation of a columnist to connect the dots. So let's call one dot Iraq and another the Gaza Strip, and note that while they are far different in history and circumstance, they are both places where Western democracies, the United States and Israel, are being defeated by a common enemy, terrorism.

Callimachus: Optimism — WaPo's Richard Cohen, writing off the American effort in Iraq as a defeat, revives the "Arabs are violent,...
Ted Belman: Terror is winning — Gaza: Tomorrow's Iraq By Richard Cohen, Washington Post It is the solemn obligation of a columnist to connect the dots.

Va. Laptop Sale Turns Into a Stampede
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RICHMOND, Va. - A rush to purchase $50 used laptops turned into a violent stampede Tuesday, with people getting thrown to the pavement, beaten with a folding chair and nearly driven over. One woman went so far as to wet herself rather than surrender her place in line.

Jeff Jarvis: At least they weren't Dells Cheap computers cause the stampede of the stupid: A rush to purchase $50 used laptops...
MarkInMexico: Main Page Steel Cage Match Turns Violent Oh, wait. You say this was not a WWF steel cage match? It was a laptop computer sale?

James Joyner: Va. Laptop Sale Turns Into a Stampede (AP) [snipped quote] Lovely. I don't know who's dumber, the people who organized this event or those who attended.
La Shawn Barber: Human Greed… …rolling all over the pavement. Check out the VIDEO (embarrassing).

A Bad Week For Protesting Mom
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(CBS/AP) Cindy Sheehan — the mother who's camped out near Crawford, Texas, demanding to speak with President Bush about her GI son who died in Iraq — is continuing her vigil but the makeshift memorial erected at her campsite has taken a hit.

Amanda Marcotte: A local veteran is turning over his ranch to the protesters so they don't have to stand in the street anymore.
Skippy: in the meantime, cbs is reporting that camp casey will be moving to a new location, thanks to a friendly landowner...
Joe @AmericaBlog: Here's the coverage from CBS/AP: "Cindy Sheehan — the mother who's camped out near Crawford, Texas, demanding to speak...

Captain Ed: Almost every news service has done the same, including this CBS story which uses it to generate sympathy for Sheehan.
Jonah Goldberg: I'd bet CBS/AP will fix this soon, but the original text of this Sheehan story reads: "Sheehan has vowed to continue...
TChris: An anti-Sheehan protestor drove his pickup truck through the crosses. So much for free speech in Crawford.

Roberts Unlikely To Face Big Fight
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Democrats have decided that unless there is an unexpected development in the weeks ahead, they will not launch a major fight to block the Supreme Court nomination of John G. Roberts Jr., according to legislators, Senate aides and party strategists.

Jason Spitalnick: On Tuesday, the Washington Post rant a story entitled "Roberts Unlikely To Face Big Fight."
Adam C: According to this morning's Washington Post, Roberts is practically a shoe-in barring any new revelations.
Betsy Newmark: This story in the Washington Post says that their plan is to subject Roberts to tough questions in his nomination...

John Hawkins: Daily News For August 17, 2005 — Domestic "California: Two Men Believed To Have Been Planning September 11, 2005...
Susie Madrak: Meanwhile, the Democrats have signaled their intention to roll over on his nomination (good dogs!) .
John Cole: Roberts Confirmation ALL But Guaranteed The Democrats aren't even going to mount an opposition: Democrats have...

Post Drops Plan to Promote Pentagon Event
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The Washington Post announced yesterday that it will back out of a controversial co-sponsorship of a Pentagon-organized event next month to remember the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and support the troops in Iraq.

Steve Soto: I wonder if Mr. Cohen raised his voice in protest at the idea his paper was going to sponsor a war rally as just one...
Jim Romenesko: Washington Post drops sponsorship of Pentagon event — Washington Post The Post has told the Defense Department that it...
Attaturk: Somebody got called out — Kudos to a number of progressive bloggers (not me really) for putting the pressure on the...

Amanda Marcotte: And now there's another story out about Roberts and his affection for freaky anti-choice groups.
Jayson @PoliPundit: Idle Time, Idle Minds — MediaCrat Senator, Pat Leahy, and a few other media drones.

Steve Bainbridge: They're Called Elections — Senator Pat Leahy and People for the American Way - also known as left-liberal types whose...

DeWine challenged by former AK president
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Former AK Steel Corp. President John Hritz plans to challenge U.S. Sen. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, for the Senate seat he has held for a decade. Hritz said he has formed an exploratory committee to look into the feasibility of running against DeWine, who is from Cedarville, for the Republican nomination in May 2006 primary election.

Scott Shields: Update: (Chris) Well, DeWine has a challenger now. Wingnut millionaire John Hirtz will challenge him in the primary.
Gerry Daly: The Dayton Business Journal reports, [snipped quote] Hirtz would run to the right of DeWine.

Wash. Post drops sponsorship of Pentagon event
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Washington Post dropped its sponsorship on Monday of a walk organized by the Pentagon to remember victims of the September 11, 2001, attacks and to support U.S. troops, saying it was possible the event would become "politicized."

Glenn Reynolds: Like this: [snipped quote] The press views the war as a political story, not a matter of patriotism.
Jayson @PoliPundit: Conundrum of Duplicity — I didn't know whether to laugh or cry upon reading this piece, from Reuters, about Bob...

Susie Madrak: Post Pulls Out You probably already heard this, but WashPo has pulled out of sponsoring the Nuremberg 9/11 rally.

'No-fly list' keeps infants off planes
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Infants have been stopped from boarding planes at airports throughout the United States because their names are the same as or similar to those of possible terrorists on the government's "no-fly list."

John Hawkins: The Greatest Terrorist Threat: Babies — Satire By Frank J. Some infants have been stopped from boarding planes because...
RJ Eskow: from cnn: [snipped quote] i can see putting their names on the "no-cry list," especially for long flights. and I can...

Daniel Solove: Babies on the No Fly List — Daniel Solove According to the AP: [snipped quote] It would be nice to see some sanity in TSA's security procedures.

Border-control Democrats and President Bush
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Democratic hopefuls for 2008 are sensing how vulnerable President Bush is on border control. The latest sign: New Mexico's politically shrewd governor, Bill Richardson, has made a partial about-face on the issue — at least in words — and is throwing money and attention at his state's southern border.

Michelle Malkin: BORDER WARS — A few weeks ago, I spoke to conservatives at the Young America's Foundation annual student conference about immigration and national security.

Clayton Cramer: Democrats Tiptoeing Up To The Border Control Issue — The Washington Times has an editorial pointing out that even an...

Terry Heaton: When the formula doesn't work — Peter Johnson at USAToday tells us that neither ABC nor CBS are in a hurry to replace...
James Joyner: Little urgency at ABC, CBS, to name successors (USA Today) [snipped quote] Bingo. Fox News figured that out years ago.

Hugh Hewitt: Dana Milbank gets the ball rolling with this piece on young Justice-to-be Roberts' views on Michael Jackson.
Captain Ed: John Roberts To Michael Jackson: Beat It — Hugh Hewitt points out this hilarious Dana Milbank article in today's...

Cookie Jill: [quote]the request came to the attention of roberts, who wrote on Sept. 21 to fielding: "i hate to sound like one of mr...[end quote]
Dr. Steven Taylor: John Roberts Demonstrates Good Judgement (and a Wide-Ranging Vocabulary) Via WaPo, a most amusing glimpse into the mind...

Amanda Marcotte: Sadly, no lessons were learned and the fundies are probably scurrying off to blame witchcraft — Good news through...

Goody Two Shoes
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Listen to this story on NPR's Day to Day. Listen to the podcast audio version of this story here, or sign up to get Slate's free daily podcasts. One fun game that Supreme Court reporters like to play when they're out on maternity leave is called "Who...

Ann Althouse: UPDATE: An entry from Dahlia Lithwick: "I am enormously confident, however, that John Roberts has never smoked pot.

Orin Kerr: Lithwick on Thomas: In a Slate piece on John Roberts, Dahlia Lithwick contrasts her vision of Roberts with her vision of...

Dwight Meredith: The AP story begins: [snipped quote] The CBO report is here (pdf). The report is good news, of course.

Kenneth Baer: Defining Deviancy Down — From: Early Returns In newspapers across the country today, the Bush Administration is being...

Memos reveal Roberts' conservative views
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Washington — As a senior legal adviser to President Ronald Reagan, John Roberts concluded that a controversial memorial service for aborted fetuses, organized by a group of California doctors who opposed Roe vs. Wade, was "an entirely appropriate means of calling attention to the abortion tragedy."

Natasha @PacificViews: There's the fetus memorial service (Emphasis mine in all quoted articles): "... Roberts' memo about the memorial...

Magpie @PacificViews: In a memo to White House counsel Fred Fielding (then his boss), Roberts expressed some pretty neanderthal notions about whether women should receive equal pay for equal work.

Roberts Once Wrote of 'Abortion Tragedy'
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WASHINGTON - As a young lawyer in the Reagan White House, Supreme Court nominee John Roberts concluded that a group's memorial service for aborted fetuses was "an entirely appropriate means of calling attention to the abortion tragedy."

Joe @AmericaBlog: And it sure sounds from his days in the Reagan administration that he is a pretty damn strong opponent of a woman's...
Jayson @PoliPundit: John Roberts. You know, watching the MediaCrats during that upcoming confirmation hearing could turn out to be more fun - in a train wreck sense - than I originally had thought.